Forgotten Memoirs: Life is Never Ordinary

A collection of autobiographical essays from this Tony Award-winning author and playwright.

Memoirs are perhaps one of the most relentless of all publishing genres. There is a constant stream of new ones being published with books from celebrities and famous names usually hogging the headlines.

Many memoirs, highly rated at the time of publication, slip into obscurity and fade away. You can find them gathering dust in the corners of secondhand bookshops. But many of these books are worth dusting off. This trip around memoirs from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s includes a few famous names such as poet Cecil Day Lewis, author Gavin Maxwell, publisher Stanley Unwin and French crooner Maurice Chevalier. However, the majority of authors on this list will be unfamiliar to most people.